Athlete Worth Watching: Katie Worm

Jan 20, 2014 03:40PM
● By Cate Reynolds

Colonel Richardson High School
Soccer, Basketball, Softball

From the start of her high school career, Katie Worm
quickly earned the respect of her older teammates.
In a playoff contest against Kent County during her
freshman season as a member of the varsity squad,
Worm propelled herself to the annals of Colonel
Richardson lore by kicking the game-winning shootout
goal and advancing the Colonels to the next round.

“For a freshman to do that, you’re nervous the whole
game and then you get out there and you prove to your
seniors that you can do it,” Worm says. “Your stomach
drops and it’s the best feeling ever.”

“As soon as I started running up to the ball and just
focused on that goalie, you just kind of zone out at that
point and just think about that goal. [My teammates]
definitely looked at me a different way after that. I
proved myself.”

That confidence only grew for Worm as she developed
a knack for trash talk. It’s only natural this three-sport
athlete gravitates to Baltimore Ravens linebacker
Terrell Suggs as her favorite athlete. Like Suggs, she
isn’t scared to let her opponents know when she gets
the best of them.

For as much confidence as she displays, humility and
motivation were in order during the Maryland 1A State
Softball Championship Game versus Mountain Ridge
High School last June. Down 8-1, Colonel Richardson
battled back to tie the game in the seventh inning and
forced an eighth inning, where they eventually fell 9-8.

“For us to come back and then lose it,” says Worm,
who won a sportsmanship award for the 2013 season,
“it took a good month to actually come back from that.
That was pretty devastating.”

In her spare time, Worm works at her family’s
produce stand, where she has helped out since she
was 12 years old. She’s considering attending either
Salisbury University or Chesapeake College following
graduation.

She plans to major in education and aspires to become
an English or gym teacher at Colonel Richardson.